I have a problem everytime I try to open ms word a message would show something like this,

if I unmark the option ms word would not start, however, if I mark the option to recover my work and restart ms word another message would show up thereafter,

If I choose yes ms word would start in safe mode, and if I choose no the first message would show up again unless I either unmark the option in the first message or choose to start ms word in safe mode...
I tried searching the internet for some solutions and even stumbled on this http://support.microsoft.com/kb/888950/en-us but I don't have McAfee as my anti-virus. I also tried deleting the entry in the regedit with the following address: HKEY_USER_CURRENT\SOFTWARE\MICROSOFT\OFFICE\10.0\WORD\DATA since my version of ms word is 2002. But still I was not able to fix the problem. Another thing I found out that if I type winword.exe /a in the run from the startmenu ms word would start in its normal fashion.
Any suggestions would be of much help.

Open any Office application that works and run the repair option
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/264625

@garmanma: I tried what you suggested however running the repair options prompted me to insert the installation CD software for microsoft office... that would be a problem because when I bought that laptop since 2004 the microsoft office was already preinstalled as part of the package deal, so technically speaking I don't have the installation CD software for the microsoft office